Movies & Dramas Review
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Thank you for your support. I have shifted this post from Club 30 to Drama Haven as I have been made a moderator here so as to keep the Thread lively, I hope. All the past dramas/movies will stay at http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1769/topics/364376 for refrence.
One of my favourite past-time is to watch movies and drama, so I intent to write a reviews and recommendation of the movies and drama I have watched. These are usually Hong Kong, Japanese and Korean drama and movies.
I will rate them with stars and my personal feeling after watching
5 stars - highly recommended
4 stars - recommended
3 stars - can watch
2 stars - don't waste your time but I finished them because I'm bored
1 star - probably won't happened because I would have abandon that show already
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Title : Dream
Genre : Romance, Sports
Synopsis:
Je-il Nam is a sports agent who was once at the top of his game, but after one of his clients becomes involved in a drug scandal his business goes down the drain. He then comes across a troubled youth named Jang-seok Lee (Kim Beom). After leaving a juvenile detention center, Jang-seok attempts to become a champion K-1 fighter. Along with taebo instructor So-yeon Park (Son Dam-Bi), Je-il tries once again to make dreams happen.
My Rating:
http://www.mysoju.com/dream-sbs/
My Review:What sports? What romance? There was none to it. Bad acting skills too. Not recommended.
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Title : I Give My First Love to You / 僕ã�®åˆ�æ�‹ã‚’ã‚ミã�«æ�§
Genre : Romance
Category : Japanese Movie
Sypnosis : Takuma, a boy who is told he will die before he’s 20, and Mayu, a girl who is in love with him… The story begins when they are little kids. Mayu, whose father is a doctor, meets Takuma, who is hospitalized in her father’s workplace. They develop feelings for each other, but Mayu learns of Takuma’s grave illness and that he will die before he turns 20. The distraught children make one promise for an uncertain future. Time passes, and the girl becomes a young woman, and the boy, a young man. Mayu continues to support and love Takuma. On the other hand, Takuma, who knows his days are numbered, pushes away his feelings for Mayu and distances himself from her. He cannot stand to see her cry or hurt her more than he already has. Then Mayu meets another man who has feelings for her, and Takuma meets a woman who has the same illness, and their feelings for each other begin to waver. Misunderstandings, unsaid thoughts, the frustrations and chagrin of youth… What will become of their love while the clock keeps ticking away in Takuma’s life?
My Rating:
My Review: More often, we asked ourselves that death means to us, But how often would you asked what life meant to you?
A lovely romantic story indeed.
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Title : Legend of Hyang Dan / í–¥ë‹¨ì „
Category: Korean Drama
Film Date: September, 2007
Episodes: 2
Synopsis:
The drama is a twist to the well known classic story of The Legend of Chun Hyang. The big question revolving around this plot is what if the one that Lee Mong Ryong loves is not Chun Hyang but Hyang Dan? The drama will deliver a refreshing new comedy style.
My Review : This is a rewritten plot of the well known Korean manga The Legend of Chun Hyang. IThe main character falls for her maid Hyang Dan instead. One of the society problem is the class system which exist in history or even in todays modern society.
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Title : Hero
Genre : Comedy
Category : Korean Drama
Synopsis : Hero is the story of Korea's top reporters and ordinary citizens fighting against the society elite's abuse of power. Working as a reporter for a racy tabloid called the Monday Seoul, Jin Do Hyuk uses any means necessary to get a scoop. One day, he goes to interview Jo Yong Deok, the boss of the Axe gang, who suggests that they start their own newspaper. Do Hyuk lies about the credentials of his former co-workers when he introduces them to Jo Yong Deok as potential hires for the newspaper venture. With his former co-workers on board, he is able to launch the Yongdeok Daily together with Yong Deok. But the newly hired reporters soon find themselves sucked into a huge conspiracy that could utterly ruin their lives.
My Rating:
My Review: Somehow I like the acting of Lee Jun Ki (of the Iljimae fame). Korean drama is able to potray the competition (often the dark side of it) for the sit to the Green Roof Stage (Presidency).
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Title : Will it Snow for Christmas? / �리스마스� 눈� 올까요?
Genre : Melodrama / Romance
Category : Korean Drama
Synopsis : Cha Kang Jin is the son of barmaid, Cha Chun Hee. His life is difficult as he gets into fights and has to watch other people push his mother around yet he can't do anything to stop it. He meets Han Ji Wan when they were teens but they weren't able to continue their relationship as Ji Wan ran away after her older brother's death. He meets Ji Wan 8 years later when he's attending her engagement ceremony to Park Tae Joon. However, he is heartbroken as Ji Wan pretends to not remember him at all.
My Rating:
My Review: Storyline too predictable and unbelievable . Such kind of story will only happened in a drama. Don't ask me how I finished this drama....
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Title : A Man Called God / ì‹ ì�´ë�¼ 불리운 사나ì�´ / 被称为神的男人
Genre : Romance
Category : Korean Drama
Synopsis : Michael King vows to revenge his parents' death. He believes that he can use his power as head of an underground drug kingpin to punish those who hurt him. However, his beliefs are shaken when he falls in love with a reporter named Jin Bo Bae.
My Rating:
My Review: Recommended by the cult leader. Don't asked me why the title is the Man Called God. I can't find any relation to that. Well, the opening was glamourous. Part charlie's angel, part 007 kind of drama but the ending is a little wee bit of disappointing.
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Genre : Romance
Category : Korean Movie
Synopsis : Writer/director E J-Yong transposes Choderlos de Laclo's novel -Dangerous Liaisons to Korea during the repressive 18th century Chosun Dynasty for his costume drama, Untold Scandal. Lady Cho decides to get revenge on her husband when he procures the services of a young, virginal concubine, Lee Soh-ok. She asks her womanizing cousin, Jo-won to seduce the girl and impregnate her. Cho-won doesn't see this as enough of a challenge. He has his sights set on an honorable young widow, Lady Sook nicknamed "The Gate of Chastity." Lady Cho makes a wager with Jo-won, offering herself to him if he provides proof that he has succeeded in seducing the widow. While Jo-won struggles to ingratiate himself to Lady Sook, manipulating her handmaiden, and donating money to her Catholic church, Lady Cho works to get the innocent Soh-ok in trouble. But things take an unexpected turn when Lord Jo-won begins to develop genuine feelings for his prey.
My Rating:
My Review: An excellent movie if you don't mind the little bit of nude scene. Starring Bae Yong Jun.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7jpbe_untold-scandal-01_shortfilms
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Genre : Comedy / Romance
Category : Korean Movie
Synopsis :
At the start of the film, Kim Yoon-Seo, an Inspections officer (police inspector) is seen at his home where his brother has been beaten almost to death. His family wants to submit a false appeal to the king accusing the family of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Lim family. The Lim family had by the past submitted a false appeal against Yoon-Seo's family. However Yoon-Seo does not wish to submit such an appeal, much to the anger of his elders.
He returns to the court where the King hands him an important assignment. The King's concubine, Jung-bin, had a painting she had drawn mounted, but it was replaced by an exct copy, she only realised because of the lack of a scribble she had drawn on the back. The King would like Yoon-Suh to find the culprits. Yoon-seo is impressed by the talent of the artist who made the fraudulent copy. Jung-bin is in turn impressed by Yoon-Seo's knowledge on the subject and invites him to talk to her some more about art some day.
Yoon-Suh teams up with Lee Gwang-hun, an inspector who likes to torture people in his dungeons, to try and hunt down the culprit. They enter a shop in their search for the criminal. In the basement Yoon-Seo encounters an old man transcribing an erotic story book. Back upstairs a group of men from the village enter the shop and engages in a fight with Gwang-hun, who beats them away with his truncheon, however Yoon-Suh is knocked out so Gwang-hun takes him back to his house with him. When Yoon-Suh awakes he admires Gwang-huns painting artwork. Back at the shop the old man confesses to Yoon-Seo that he does not wish to protect the mounter either, but that one of his friends is involved and he does not wish to betray him. After Yoon-Seo has promised to protect his identity, the old man gives him an address he may go to. Out of curiosity before he leaves he reads few verses from the book the old man is reproducing. He is at first outraged by the content (pornography being illegal at the time), but when the old man says the whole city is waiting for the book he shows some interest and perhaps embarrassment about never having heard of the author. He reports later to the King that he found the culprits and had each flogged fifty times.
Jung-bin invites him around for tea, to thank him. When a bee lands on her he violates all protocol risking his death, by going beyond the curtain and brushing it off her shoulder. Jung-bin however does not report his attitude, and thanks him instead. She also appears to be very fond of him.
Yoon-Seo writes an indecent book himself and returns to the shop to present to the shop keeper, asking him to read it. The shopkeeper, Hwang is impressed and they decide to copy and sell his work. His book becomes a best seller.
To get his books to sell better he asks Lee Gwang-hun to illustrate them for him. At first he is outraged but in the end accepts. Meanwhile Jung-bin sends him an embroidered kerchief, by means of her eunuch, who asks him to not accept the present, or else Jung-bin will be wanting to meet him. He does accept though, and later meets Jung-bin, in private. They start to cuddle, but Yoon-Seo leaves when she attempts to kiss him.
The illustrator has trouble understanding some of the things he is supposed to draw, so next time Yoon-Seo meets Jung-bin, he has him hide behind a wall, and spy on them while they have sex. Yoon-Seo writes about his affair with Jung-bin in his next book. When she forces the one of her maids to tell her, she goes to the shop and confronts Yoon-Seo. She tells him to divulge the name of the illustrator Gwang-hun. However he refuses to betray him.
Jung-bin has Yoon-Seo sent to the town prison, the prison for which Gwang-hun the illustrator is responsible. In the presence of Jung-bin, Yoon-seo is tied to the ceiling and severerly beaten with sticks.
Gwang-hun wishes to stop but Jung-bin decides to call the matter to the King's attention. They tie Yoon-Seo to a contraption, and Gwang-hun turns the handle until the bones of his legs snap in half. The King is satisfied with the torture but Jung-bin wants to continue, after their meal. During meal time Gwang-hun removes him from jail, so he can escape with the help of the book publisher, the shopkeeper. However Jung-bin's eunuch follows them and a fight ensues in between the people from the shop and a group of warriors the eunuch brought along. The shopkeepers are no match for the warriors, however Gwang-hun does put up a good fight. In the end he is beaten but is forced to leave with the people from the shop while the eunuch takes Yoon-seo back to his jail. Gwang-hun is left alive because Yoon-seo threatens to claim the eunuch is the illustrator, which would be possible because he did come with Jung-bin to all their meetings. On the way back the eunuch becomes more worried about what Yoon-seo may say and attempts to kill him. One of his warriors however chops off his hand to avoid him stabbing Yoon-seo. The eunuch is shocked and the warrior asks him why he disobeyed an order. The eunuch tells him he had an order from his heart also (he is secretly in love with Jung-bin, and became a eunuch to stay with her); at which point the warriors shoves his dagger through the top of his shoulder and down through his heart.
Yoon-seo is brought back to the palace and to Jung-bin and the King. Jung-bin decides he has had enough. The King asks her about her sudden change of mind. And tells her how he knows that what she had wanted Yoon-seo to say all along was not the name of the illustrator, bu that he loved her. The King can not understand why he did not lie and say he loved her.
The King tells the servant to castrate him and make him a eunuch so he may be with Jung-bin for the rest of his life, even though the operation may kill him due to his age. Jung-bin intervenes and takes all the blame saying she used her influence to seduce him. Yoon-seo then confesses his love to her. Jung-bin says she will wait till they meet again in the next life. The King is overcome by anger and grief, as he was most in love with her, and at first wants to personally kill both Jung-bin and Yoon-seo. He decides against this though, as he realizes that it would be useless as they would just be reunited in the afterlife, and leaves them both alive.
At the end Yoon-seo is sent to live in exile on an island, where he continues to write. Jung-bin remains at the palace "to rot". Later it is revealed that the words "indecent" were branded on Yoon-seo's forehead as part of his punishment.
The film ends with Yoon-seo, Gwang-hun and the shopkeeper walking along the shore, talking about future works, which include their first homosexual male erotic story, and even the discovery by Yoon-seo of the basic principles of animation or "moving pictures" .
My Rating:
My Review: With a viewership of 2,200,000 upon its release in 2006 in South Korea, this ought to be a movie not to be missed. Don't worry, with its censorship, not much is left for expectation.
http://freekoreanmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/watch-forbidden-quest-2006-korean-movie.html
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Title : Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle
Genre : Food
Category : Korean Movie
Synopsis : "Le Grand Chef 2" begins with the Korean president visiting the Japanese Prime Minister and becoming involved in a heated debate over the origins of kimchi. The Japanese Prime Minister makes the bold claim that kimchi is an original Japanese dish which sets off the Korean president. Upon the Korean's president return home he sets upon a globalization plan for kimchi, which includes a nationwide "Kimchi Contest". Then, a lady named Jang-eun (Kim Jeong-Eun) and her step-brother Sung-Chan (Jin Ku) compete in the Kimchi dish contest, with both siblings using their mother's kimchi recipe. Jang-eun is a famed chef in Japan who returns to Korea to compete in the contest. Jang-eun also wants to close down "Chunyang-gak" - the traditional Korean restaurant that her mother has been running. Jang-eun has felt that her mother loved the restaurant more than herself and her own daughter. Meanwhile, Sung-Chan wants to keep the restaurant and proposes to his step-sister that the winner of the Kimchi contest should have the rights to their mother's restaurant.
My Rating:
My Review: I love the korean preserved vegetables, the kimchi. So, this is one movie I thought I should not missed. Just watchable only.
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Title : Shadow in the Palace / 宮女 / �녀
Genre : Horror /Triller
Category : Korean Movie
Synopsis : Deep within the suffocating stern palace where no one but the king can choose to die, the dead body of Wol-ryung, a court lady, is found dead hanging by the rafters. Chun-ryung, a court nurse brought in to examine the dead body, suggests the possibility of murder.
The supervising court maid and court maid Shim under the royal concubine Hee-bin, however, order her to cover up the death as a suicide while worried about any setbacks in Heebin's son becoming the royal prince. The mysterious death and the court ladies forced to bury the truth As Chun-ryung does an autopsy on the corpse, she finds traces of Wol-ryun having given birth.
She suspects it to be a murder disguised as a suicide and starts investigating in secret. She suspects Jung-ryul, the one who first discovered the body, and starts questioning her. However, Jung-ryul appears possessed and tormented by a ghost while the other court ladies keep their mouths tightly closed.On-going murders and a massively growing secret In the tightly closed palace where even a whisper cannot dare seep out, Chungryung is madly on the search for the murderer.
Meanwhile, the supervising court maid plans to hold the annual 'court ladies discipline training where court ladies of misconduct are brought together and punished to set right. Her plan is to pick a sacrificial lamb to take the blame for murdering Wol-ryung and close the case. On the night of the discipline training, Chun-ryung discovers an unexpected sword belonging to a court lady and the palace's eerie shadow of death creeps upon her....What is the truth behind the court lady's murder?
My Rating:
My Review: Not easy to follow as the story jumps here and there but the answer lies in the end of the story. Pretty gruesome scene and is indeed realistic. Korean horror movies are really not bad.
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Title : The Housemaid 2010
Genre : Triller
Category : Korean Movie
Synopsis : Eun-yi, a middle-aged divorcee, is hired as an upper class family housemaid. But soon enough, master of the house Hoon takes advantage of his social position by slipping into her sheets. Hoon's visits become frequent and Byung-sik, an old housemaid, reports the affair to Hae-ra's mother, Mi-hee, who plots to give Hae-ra the control over her husband. Soon Eun-yi miraculously becomes pregnant and wants to keep the baby. This is discovered by the family and she's forced to have an abortion by Mi-hee despite Eun-yi's plea to let her keep the baby and leave the house. Mi-hee's plot backfires when Hoon scrutinizes her for terminating his child, even if that child is conceived illegitimately. Her forced abortion turns Eun-yi's mental condition for the worst and she decides to take the matter into her own hands.
My Rating:
My Review: This is the remake of the 1960 movie of the same title. Compare to the amount of antisipaction and review of this movie, I cannot agree to their views. I must say that the cinematography is excellent but too much time is spent on this that it took away the lead actress opportunity to display her acting skill making the movie plot a little hasty. So.......the moral of the movie to me is think twice before you think of having an affair with the housemaid.
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Title : The Three Brothers
Genre : Family Drama/Romance
Category : Korean Drama
Synopsis : Sun-kyeong is a retired police officer and father of three sons.
He had high hopes for his eldest son Gun-gang, but he has fallen short of expectations almost every time. He has made wrong decisions many times in life, ending up being divorced and going bankrupt. Sun-kyeong was not happy with Gun-gang's decision to remarry Chung-nan, but after finding out Chung-nan's secret, he keeps it unknown and wishes the couple's happiness.
His second son Hyun-chal is the envy of the town and pride of his father. Compared to his older brother, he was not favored as much by his parents as a child, but now he runs a number of businesses which are quite successful. Sun-kyeong always feels indebted to Hyun-chal's wife, Wu-mi who has long sacrificed her happiness for the benefit of the Kim family.
Sun-kyeong feels proud of his last son Yi-sang as he follows in his father's footsteps by becoming a police officer. However, due to the generation gap, oftentimes the father and the son clash each other.
As opposed to Sun-kyeong's expectation, Yi-sang married Eo-yeong, the daughter of his deadly foe, an ex-convict Sun-kyeong traced and eventually arrested a long time ago.
The unique three sons and three daughters-in-law!
"Three brother" revolves around their relations full of conflicts and love.My Rating:
My Review: This drama is currently being screened on channel U. Although the title of this drama is not impressive, the drama is. It is often to the mother's eye that the woman the son choose will alway fall short of her expectation. As such, family conflicts happened. From petty conflicts like housework to favourism, from children to money. It is indeed happenning. Outstanding performance by the mother-in-law and the second daughter-in-law Wu-Mi.
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Could you please review The Baker King, aka Kim Tak Goo.
It is also a Korean drama, by KBS.Broadcasted Wed and Thurs on KBS World after the evening news.
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im chasing Mischievous Kiss
bcos of kim hyun joong
and partly bcos i relli liked the tw version It Started With A Kiss
i finished Personal Preference
lee min ho absolutely 帅
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The music KBS puts in for "Kim Tak Goo" is also damn nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nexcR8ODl6o&feature=player_embedded#!
2:56 to 4:23
AWESOME.
Cannot get that melody out of my head, and I keep watching it for that reason. And I still don't know the title of that piece. Damn nice.The portrait crashing down scene is epic. WOW grandma doesn't approve
And the mom fainted
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le grand chef is 食客?
the one about woo nam jeong?
le grand chef 2 not related rite?
oni the same person lee sung chan..........
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Originally posted by FireIce:
im chasing Mischievous Kiss
bcos of kim hyun joong
and partly bcos i relli liked the tw version It Started With A Kiss
i finished Personal Preference
lee min ho absolutely 帅
and i want live in a house like Sang Go Jae!Personal Preference? Blah...But then, how many and resist Lee Min Ho...
There's a new korean F4 coming up in the drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal that will make the gals goes gaa gaa again
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Title : The Gumiho's Revenge / 구미호� 복수
Genre : Melodrama / Mystery/ Thriller
Category : Korean Drama
Synopsis : In the story, the gumiho leaves her husband and has a young daughter who has inherited her mother’s ability to shape-shift (gumiho lore includes their abilities to transform themselves to look human). She decides to take revenge against a human.
My Rating:
My Review: I'm into �狸精�No lah...not mistress.
I have always being interested in forklore and this is one forklore very well known in both Japan and Korea. Gumiho or Nine Tails Fox has the ability to transform themselves into human form and has the desire to become a human, often looking for love. Other horror tales depicit them to be consuming human liver in order to maintain its form.This drama is about a mother Gumiho seeking revenge on the human who killed her daughter for her liver in order to save the human daughter.
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Title : Kim Soo Ro
Genre : Historical
Category : Korean Drama
Synopsis : This drama charts the life of Kim Soo Ro, the legendary founder of the city-state of Geumgwan Gaya during the Three Kingdoms Period. He unified 12 small countries to create the state of Geumgwan Gaya in southeastern Korea during the Three Kingdoms Period in Korea
My Rating:
My Review: This drama is a little boring. Poor acting by the lead actor and is way below expectation.
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Title : Letters for Iwo Jima
Genre : Non friction / Historical
Category : Japanese Movie
Synopsis :
In 2005, Japanese archaeologists explore tunnels on Iwo Jima, where they find something in the dirt.
The scene changes to Iwo Jima in 1944. Private First Class Saigo, a baker conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army, and his platoon are grudgingly digging beach trenches on the island. Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrives to take command of the garrison and immediately begins an inspection of the island defenses. He saves Saigo and his friend Kashiwara from a beating by Captain Tanida for 'unpatriotic speeches', and orders the men to begin tunnelling defenses into Mount Suribachi. Kuribayashi and Lieutenant Colonel Baron Takeichi Nishi, a famous Olympic gold medalist show jumper, clash with some of their seniors, who do not agree with Kuribayashi's strategy: Kuribayashi believes the US will take the beaches quickly, and only the mountain defenses will have a better chance for holding out.
Poor nutrition and unsanitary conditions take their toll; many die of dysentery, including Kashiwara. The troops begin using the caves. Kashiwara's replacement, Superior Private Shimizu, arrives for duty. Saigo suspects that Shimizu is a spy from Kempeitai to report on disloyal soldiers.
The first American bombings occur, causing significant casualties. A few days later, U.S. Marines land. The American troops suffer heavy casualties, but the beach defenses are quickly overcome, and the attack turns to the positions on Mount Suribachi. While delivering a request for more machine guns from his commander to the Suribachi garrison, Saigo overhears Kuribayashi radioing orders to retreat. The commander, however, ignores the general and instead orders his company to commit suicide. Saigo runs away with Shimizu, convincing him to continue the fight rather than die. They find two other soldiers, but one gets incinerated by an American flamethrower, and they witness a captured Marine being bayoneted to death.
Saigo and the soldiers in Mount Suribachi try to flee with Lieutenant Oiso at night, but they run into Marines, who wipe out all except Saigo and Shimizu. They flee to friendly lines, but are accused by Lieutenant Ito of betraying bushido by surviving a defeat. Ito raises his katana to execute them for cowardice, but Kuribayashi arrives and saves Saigo again by confirming his order to retreat.
The Japanese soldiers attempt a futile attack against US positions, but take heavy losses. The survivors are told to regroup with Colonel Nishi. Ito heads to the US lines with three mines, intending to throw himself under a tank. The next morning, Okubo, Nishi's executive officer, shoots a Marine, who is subsequently captured. Despite Colonel Nishi's attempts to treat his wounds, the American dies within hours. Nishi finds a letter from the American's mother and reads it to his men. As a bomb hits the cave later on, Nishi is blinded. He orders his men to another position and orders Lieutenant Okubo to leave him a rifle. Upon leaving, the soldiers hear a gunshot from Nishi's cave.
Saigo suggests surrender, and Shimizu reveals that he was dishonorably discharged from the Kempeitai because he refused to kill a dog for his superior, who was simply annoyed by its barking. Shimizu and another soldier attempt to flee, but Lieutenant Okubo shoots the other soldier, while Shimizu escapes. Shimizu surrenders to a patrol and finds himself with another POW. The patrol moves on, leaving them with two Marines, but one of the guards cold-bloodedly shoots them. The dead soldiers are found by Okubo who uses it as a lesson against surrender. Weeping, Saigo wraps Shimizu's senninbari over his corpse.
Meanwhile, Ito, desperate and malnourished, breaks down and, when found, surrenders. Saigo and the survivors find the cave is under attack, and a fierce battle rages. While running across a crossfire point, they lose several men, including Okubo. They rendezvous with General Kuribayashi, and one last attack is planned. Kuribayashi orders Saigo stay behind and burn all documents and letters, including his own letters, saving Saigo's life a final time.
Attired as a common infantryman, Kuribayashi launches a final charge at the head of his surviving soldiers. Almost all are killed, and Kuribayashi is mortally wounded. The general's loyal adjutant Fujita drags him away. The next morning, Kuribayashi asks for himself to be beheaded. As a weeping Fujita raises his katana to behead Kurabayashi, he is shot dead by an American sniper. Saigo arrives, having buried some of the documents and letters instead of burning them all. The dying general orders Saigo to bury him where the Americans will never find his body. The General draws his M1911 – a gift from an American officer (Mark Moses) before the war – and commits suicide. In tears, Saigo drags Kurabayashi's body away for burial.
Later, a US patrol find Fujita's body. A Marine Lieutenant finds Kuribayashi's pistol and tucks it under his belt. They search the area and find Saigo with his shovel. Seeing the General's pistol in an enemy's possession, an enraged Saigo attacks the Americans with his shovel. Too weak to fight properly, he is knocked unconscious and taken to the POW beach. Awakening, he glimpses the setting sun and smiles grimly.
The film ends with modern archaeologists uncovering the letters and documents that Private Saigo buried in 1945.
My Rating:
My Review: The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it. I probably need to watch it a second time to comprehend the movie better
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Title : Sungkyunkwan Scandal / ì„±ê· ê´€ 스캔들 / æˆ�å�‡é¤¨ç·‹è�ž
Genre : Comedy / Romance / Period
Category : Korean Drama
Synopsis : This drama is set in Sungkyunkwan University during the Joseon era, revolving around the exploits and love stories of four youths. When her younger brother falls ill, Kim Yoon Hee enters the school in his place disguised as a boy in her desperation to find a way to support him, and becomes friends with Lee Sun Joon, extremely rich and the brains of the gang, playboy Goo Yong Ha and the rebellious Moon Jae Shin.
My Rating:
My Review: Not much substance in such drama when you have too many to these fans actors. Ending is a bit boring.
